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[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.


Christine de Pizan


#books #character #clichés #conduct #double-standards

I understand men much better than most women I know.


Catherine Bell


#i #know #men #most #much

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.


Jeanette Winterson


#fate #self-discovery #understanding #destiny

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.


Criss Jami


#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, “You want me to wear a condom?!”



Jarod Kintz


#failure #false-conclusion #horrified #horror #mistake

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.


Sam Levenson


#been #each #easy #first #lifetime

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.


Damian Lewis


#also #around #being #economic #emotional

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.


Ray Lewis


#calls #chasing #early #growing #growing up

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.


Robert Ley


#explain #something #sometimes #understanding

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.


Abraham Lincoln


#duty #end #faith #let us #lets






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